Generic extension
.tel domain name
Register or transfer your .tel with WebOké. Below you can see what it costs, who can register a .tel and what to look out for when transferring.
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Specifications
The key details of .tel
- Registry
- telnic.org
- Registration period
- 1 to 10 years
- Renewal period
- 1 to 10 years
- Domain name length
- 1 to 63 characters
- Transfer time
- 5 days
- Renewal on transfer
- yes, transferring renews the domain
- Transfer lock available
- yes
- Number of nameservers
- 1 to 13
- Renewable after expiry date
- 35 days
- Quarantine after deletion
- 30 days
Features
- DNSSEC: yesYou can secure your domain name with DNSSEC.
- IPv6: yesThe nameservers for this extension can also be reached over IPv6.
- Special characters: yesDomain names with letters such as é, ü or ø (and sometimes other scripts) are possible.
- Whois privacy: yesYour details can be hidden in the public Whois.
- Trustee: no
Requirements
Who can register a .tel?
Additional details for registration
- You indicate whether you're registering the domain name as an individual or as an organisation, for example a company.
- If you're registering as an individual, you can choose whether your personal details are visible in the WHOIS or hidden. This isn't possible for organisations.
Good to know when registering
- Premium names have a different registration process.
- Restrictions apply to all names of 3 or 4 characters that consist only of numbers or only of letters. This also applies to a limited number of names of 3 or 4 characters containing both numbers and letters.
- If you use the Telhosting platform of the registry Telnic, support for it is provided directly by Telnic.
- The new Telhosting platform no longer offers subdomains. If you want to keep using subdomains, you'll need to discuss the options with Telnic.
Transfer
Transferring a .tel
- You need a transfer code. As the registrant or administrative contact, you request it from your current registrar.
- Check in the WHOIS that the domain name isn't locked. If it is, the registrant can ask the current registrar to remove the lock.
- After the transfer request, the registrant or administrative contact listed in the WHOIS receives a confirmation email. The transfer only starts once you confirm it. This is the mandatory ICANN authorisation.
- The current registrar then receives the request and also sends an email, which you can use to refuse the transfer. If you don't respond, the transfer is completed after 5 days.
- If the email address in the WHOIS is incorrect, the transfer can't go ahead. In that case, have the address updated with your current registrar first.
- After a successful transfer, the registry locks the domain name against a new transfer for 60 days.
The transfer code
- A transfer code is mandatory. As the registrant or administrative contact, you get it from your current registrar.
- The code must be 8 to 32 characters long.
- The code must contain at least one letter, one number and one special character, such as ! $ % ? & @ * + - . / : ~.
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Owner
Change of registrant
Change of registrant
- When transferring to another owner, the rules of the ICANN transfer policy apply.
Renewal, cancellation and quarantine
- If you want to restore a cancelled domain name, the request is handled manually. You'll be notified of the outcome by email.
More information
Registry rules and links
- Registry website telnic.org
- Registry whois telnic.org
- Dispute resolution policy wi.rrpproxy.net
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